Schedule

* Times listed are in Mountain Standard Time

March 5, 2025: Student Partners and Engagement: Strategies and Practices

• 12:15 – Natasha Ramroop Singh – Killing Three Birds with One Stone: Student-Led OER development, SoTL Research and Improved Learner Outcomes
• 12:30 – Anna MacGillivray and Cole MacDougall – Open Minds and Open Resources: The Use of OER-Enabled Pedagogy in Upper Level Postsecondary Education
• 12:45 – Janelle Sztuhar and Claire Hay – Involving Students in OER Development at University of the Fraser Valley
• 1:00 – Lesley Farmer – Student-Generated Open Educational Resources (Moved to March 26)
• 1:15 – Ben Johnson – Open Co-Curricular Practices: An Opportunity to Synergize Co-Curriculars with Open Educational Practices

March 12, 2025 – Advancing Open Education: Supports and Initiatives

• 12:15 – Heather Blicher – Reimagining CCCOER: A Community of Practice for the Future of Open Education
• 12:30 – Danielle Collins, Marie Bartlett, Jessica Obando Almache, Kaitlyn Meyers and co-op students: Jesse Perkins, Vansh Sethi and Aiko Uehara – Advancing Open Education with the Open Press: Opportunities for Collaboration and Support
• 12:45 – Caitlan Maxwell and Justin Baggott – OER Faculty Institute: Synchronous to Self-Enroll
• 1:00 – Melanie Latham and Jamie Drozda – Making Learning Available and Accessible with Open (Moodle) Courses
• 1:15 – Samantha Read and Jacob Cruchet – Connecting the Dots: A Student-Led Collaboration to Increase the Visibility of Zero- and Low-Cost Courses via the StFX Timetable

March 19, 2025 – Using and Developing OER: Strategies and Practices

• 12:15 – Mira Scarnecchia and Jason LaMar– Cross-Campus Partnership Leads to OER Progress
• 12:30 – Sherry Neville-MacLean and Erin Mazerolle – Stories of OER Use in Upper-Level Classes and Labs
• 12:45 – Leila Malkin and Erin Fields – Connecting Text with Style: Managing Open Pedagogy Assignments in Pressbooks
• 1:00 – Danielle Collins, Peter Tsigaris, Marie Bartlett, Jessica Obando Almache, Kaitlyn Meyers, Jesse Perkins, Vansh Sethi, and Aiko Uehara – Collaborative OER Creation with Peter Tsigaris
• 1:15 – Pinder Nagra – OER Successes: TRU BScN Program

March 26, 2025 – Generative AI and Technology: Tensions and Use in Open Education

• 12:15 – Terry Power – Stepping through AI’s ‘Looking Glass’: The Day Academia as We Know it Disappeared
• 12:30 – YiPing Wang – Exploring the Basics of Open Education and AIs Role in Enhancing Learning
• 12:45 – Clint Lalonde – Revise and Shine! Using GenAI to revise OER
• 1:00 – Lesley Farmer – Student-Generated Open Educational Resources
• 1:15 – Richard Zach – Accessible Open Textbooks in Math-Heavy Disciplines

Digital Posters

• Michelle Brailey & Sarah Adams – Open Publishing with Open Education Alberta
• Susan Jones – Universal Design for Learning Applied to Conceptual Math Foundations for Adult Learners
• Linda Miles – Establishing an Effective Peer-Review Process for OER Course Materials
• Heather M. Ross & Darryl Isbister – From Poster to Pedagogy: The 10-Year Evolution of Open at the University of Saskatchewan

Format:

Lightning Talks: There will be five speakers per session, per day, for a total of 20 speakers for four lunchtime sessions every Wednesday in March 2025. Speakers will have a 15-minute session in which they can discuss their practice and take questions from participants. All talks will be hosted online via Zoom.

Poster Opportunities: New this year – posters! Are you doing cool work with OE and want to share in a visual format? Submit your infographic, poster, or other images of your OE work to the OE Talks Digital Poster Wall. Creators will receive more information, guidelines, and licensing information upon acceptance.

Streams

There are four streams for the lightning talks. Speakers are invited to indicate which stream(s) their talk best aligns with on their proposal. Participants will be able to choose which talks and streams that they want to engage with upon registration.

1. Building Blocks of OE: These talks focus on the basics of open education, what it is, and why it has been impactful in higher education, including examples. Some related topics. Some related topics include:
   • Getting started with open education in post-secondary education
   • Strategies for engaging faculty in OE initiatives
   • Overcoming common challenges in adopting OERs and OE
   • Best practices for adopting and utilizing OE practices in courses
2. Artificial Intelligence, Technology, and OE: These talks focus on emerging and responsive connections between artificial intelligence, technology, and OE. Some related topics include:
   • How AI is transforming the landscape of open education
   • Ensuring equity and accessibility in technology-enhanced OEr
   • Building resilient and flexible open education ecosystems
   • Ethical implications of AI in educational content creation and distribution
3. Student Leadership and Partnership in Open Education: These talks amplify student-led OE projects and initiatives. Some related topics include:
   • Student perspectives on the benefits and challenges of using OE
   • Student advocacy in OE conversations and decision-making
   • The role of student leadership in promoting open education initiatives
   • Models of successful student-faculty collaboration in OE initiatives
4. Tensions and Possibilities for the Future of Open Education: These talks focus on how educators integrate open research into their courses and scholarship of teaching and learning practices. Some related topics include:
   • Strategies to maintain the integrity of OER amidst commercial interests
   • Best practices for protecting student privacy in AI-driven educational environments
   • Examining the trend of locking open resources behind subscription-based programs
   • Exploring sustainable models for funding and distributing OER without paywalls

Important Dates:

Proposal Deadline: January 10, 2025
Speakers Notified: January 17, 2025
Registration Open: February 3, 2025

Proposal Deadline:

Proposals are no longer being accepted for 2025.

Proposal Review and Scheduling

The steering committee will review proposals, and speakers will be notified by January 17, 2025. The steering committee will coordinate with speakers to determine their talks’ streams, dates and times.